Quotes About Detachment

After a while of being there for someone and they don't seem to appreciate it, you start to give up.

Being there for someone is different to picking sides. Stop stirring sh.. and get out of their business.

Never thought being there for someone was a bad thing? Oh well life goes on. I'll just keep it moving like it was just nothing.

There's a point in life when you get tired of chasing everyone and trying to fix everything, but it's not giving up. It's realizing you don't need certain people and their crap.

pococurantism,

How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.

To be sure, external things of whatever kind require skill in their use, but we must not grow attached to them; whatever they are, they should only serve for us to show how skilled we are in our handling of them.

My friends, who are both women, tell me their stories, which cannot be believed and which are true. They are horror stories and they have not happened to me, they have not yet happened to me, they have happened to me but we are detached, we watch our unbelief with horror.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn.

Der sichtbare Zerfall ist Ausdruck für die Loslösung aus dieser Welt.

Only to themselves are the passionate hot. To the objects of their passion they are cold. What Yeats knew. They eradicate what they notice, as the thumb hard-crams the clay impressionable under it, to lie flat, apt to the shape their cold-steel scribes may cut or spurn it to. Yet they know passion must drown to ripen sweet & give fair play to the whole life hot passion speeds us from.

B — Breathe! Do I need to pause, step back, and look at this situation more objectively?

I need to remember that where my ego is concerned, the only way to win is not to play.

Learn to ignore everything

... security is not having things

Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!